Bravo star reflects on 200 pound weight loss: Before-and-after pics

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he shed 200 pounds. "That year, I had hit rock bottom. It was the culmination of a lifetime of diets and the resulting shame when they didn't work.

I was a successful real estate agent who was too ashamed to see my clients in person anymore," he wrote in an essay for today.com. "I took a management position so I could train other agents instead, and my clients wouldn't see how big I had gotten.

But I was embarrassed even in a training position: I didn't look like I had my life together or like someone these agents would aspire to become."A post shared by Tyler Whitman (@tylerwhitman)His weight, at the time, dictated his life.  "So many of my actions when I was overweight were motivated by the thoughts in my head," he wrote.